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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Boletus. 
Tubes yellow, the longest not more than one-third of an inch, adhering 
firmly to the pileus. Pores very small, circular. 
Pileus dead white, convex, but very irregular in shape, from two to four 
inches over, downy in the depressed parts, cooping in, and so thick in 
flesh as to leave but little space for the tubes. 
Stem yellow, one to two inches high, and nearly as much in diameter. 
I named it from its thick clumsy stem, and its general massy appearance. 
(Elephant Boletus. E.) Red rock plantation, Edgbaston park. 
Sept. 1791. 
Bol. ed'ulis. (Bull.) Tubes green yellow: pileus brown: stem 
light brownish yellow. 
(Sowerby 111. E.)— Pl. Pan. 1074— Bull. 494, rery large. 
Tubes greenish yellow, more than three quarters of an inch long, not fixed to 
the stem, readily separating from the pileus. Pores brown yellow, cir¬ 
cular, small for the size of the plant. 
Pileus pale or deeper brown, with rust-coloured patches, nearly globular, 
and five or six inches over when opening, but a flat convex and seven or 
eight inches across when fully expanded. Flesh white, attaining a green¬ 
ish colour when wounded. 
Stem light brown or yellowish, three to five inches high, one and a half 
diameter, tapering upwards. 
Bulliard reckons this a variety of Bol. bovinus of Linn. 
(Eatablk Boletus. Bol. edulis. Pers. Purt. E.) Fir plantations at Barr, 
Staffordshire. August.f 
Var. 2. Smaller: pores large: pileus huffy, dark brown at the edge and 
fleckered with dark brown stains : stem yellowish, -with rusty stains. 
Pileus near three inches over. Stem two and a half inches high, full a quar¬ 
ter of an inch diameter. Flesh white, turning greenish. 
In Packington park. Also at Pendarvis, by Mr. Stackhouse, who observes 
that the smell is grateful, and that the skin of the pileus readily strips off. 
J uly—Autumn. 
*Bol. GREGA f Rius. Tubes yellow; pores oblong, unequal; pileus 
thin, flattish, dark or pale chesnut: stem pale chesnut, pinky 
below. 
FI. Dan. 1018. 
Tubes short. Pores small, angular, yellow. 
Pileus reddish yellow, clammy, smooth, thin, flat, two to four inches over. 
Flesh white. 
Stem insensibly swelling into the pileus, and expanding till it loses itself in 
the rim ; three to four inches high, half an inch diameter. 
I met with this in the summer of 1790, and marked its singularity in being 
fasciculated, before I saw the plate in FI. Dan. It is much eaten by 
insects. Mr. Stackhouse. 
(Clustered Fasciculated Boletus. E.) Pendarvis, Cornwall. Mr. 
Stackhouse. 
*'Bol. lu'teus. Tubes deep yellow: pileus deep bay, striated: stem 
dirty white, ring permanent. 
+ (This plant is said to he eatable, and when properly dressed somewhat to resemble 
veal, or cocoa-nut. E.) 
